The Growth of Perspectives on a Disaster Stricken Society: One Aspect of Practical Research on Post-Disaster Social Reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake

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  • 被災へのまなざしの叢生過程をめぐって――東日本大震災に対峙する被災地復興研究の一端――
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<p>In the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake, how have sociologists confronted the disaster stricken society? Considering the growth of perspectives on and concepts about disaster stricken societies in the last fifty years, such as ‘man-made disaster (Jinsai)’ ‘indirectly-stricken (area, people) (Kansetsu-Hisai)’ ‘pre-disaster reconstruction (Jizen-Fukkou)’ ‘disaster caused by the reconstruction program (Fukkou-Saigai)’ etc., we are now undertaking sociological research on post-disaster society reconstruction in a small fisherman’s village, Kobuchi-Hama, located in a suburb of Ishinomaki City.</p><p>In Japan, for the past eighty years following the Great Kanto Earthquake (1923), disaster reconstruction has been understood as being almost solely public work projects of city construction, called ‘preplanned reconstructions’. However, post-disaster society reconstruction is carried out in a more complex manner in a plurality of ways, with multi-stakeholder attended social reconstruction programs. In such programs, local history should be respected and the memories and voices of cultural events, work and daily life should be observed, and the reconstruction plan must be drawn up with a vision derived from what local people really desire.</p><p>Only one year and some months have passed since the earthquake disaster occurred, so in the latter part of this essay I have attempted to present the small beginnings of our research on the social reconstruction underway in Kobuchi-Hama.</p>

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